I’ve had several requests for ideas for using chip beads in jewelry, so here you go!  

Seven ideas that will inspire your creativity with these beautiful, but irregular beads.

Chip beads are beautiful and fun to look at, but the same irregularity that makes them so interesting can also make it difficult to design jewelry using them.

This video gives you 7+ ideas to get you going creating lovely earrings, necklaces and bracelets with these fun beads!

Here is an overview of the seven ideas, watch the video for more details:

7 Creative Ways to Use Chip Beads In Jewelry:

1. Earrings with strands of chips on eye pin links

2. Stacking chips on links for necklaces, bracelets & earrings

3. Bracelets & necklaces with strands of chip beads on eye pins: stacked, singly or a combination

4. Tassel type earrings or pendant with long head pins with chips at bottom of each

5. Add chips to knitted wire using knitting tool (Watch my video on the Wonder Knitter to learn how.)

6. String groupings of them on memory wire for bracelets or necklaces

7. Make clusters, like in purple earrings or Spring Greens Earrings 

CChip bead earring materials:

Blue Shell Dangles:

• dyed shell chips
• 1-inch head pins 
• One Step Looper or round nose pliers & wire cutters 
• chain nose pliers 
• daiy spacers
• ear wires 
• 6mm jump ring

Amethyst Clusters:

• amethyst chip beads 
• 1-inch copper head pins 
• 3mm round brass beads 
• 14mm Czech Glass Button Beads-Opaque White with Satin Taupe 
• fine chain
• 4 x 6mm rondelles
• ear wires
• 1.5mm and 3mm One Step Looper or round nose pliers and wire cutters 
• chain nose pliers 

I hope you are inspired by these ideas. If you create anything with them, we’d all love to see! Please share your work in my new Facebook Group, Keepsake Crafts Create.

Watch the Seven Creative Ways To Use Chip Beads In Your Jewelry video at YouTube.